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Australian Casino Wars: Casino Strike Action!, by Greg Tingle - 9th September 2010
Australian and international pundits... you want casino and gambling action and news? Here it is maties. The world famous Australian Casino Wars continue to generate heat and excitement around the world. It's not only the main two players in Australia - James Packer owned Crown Casino and Tabcorp owned Star City Casino, but now almost certain strike action from the staff is on the cards. Rampant rumours suggest that another "strike" or two is also possible, but that may be jumping the gun! Media Man and Gambling911 don the bullet proof vests and grab the baton and plastic handcuffs. It's lights, cameras, action, strike!...
Crown Casino Workers To Strike; Rumours - Star City Casino And Others May Follow Trend...
Australian land based casinos can still operate in times of strike action, which is a very good thing for the powers that be at Crown Casino (and potentially a number of others).
Crown Limited is one of the biggest employers of Melbourne - ites - (for the moment). Let us also not forget that Crown are also a major supporter of our friend (and maybe yours) Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest.
Multiple thousands of workers at Crown Casino will likely be on strike during this year's Spring Racing Carnival as part of a significant industrial campaign for better pay, and perhaps conditions.
Crown staff will vote on the possible strike action in the coming weeks after Fair Work Australia approved the ballot. Insiders are hoping they don't get the equivalent of a hung Parliament, which was the state of Australia's senate for roughly 2 weeks, before Julia Gillard was reappointed the Prime Ministership.
Staffers are seeking out a 13.5% pay rise over three years and have flat out rejected Crown's 11% offer.
The LHMU (Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union) state secretary Jess 'Witty' (Media Man tag) Walsh said Crown Limited had posted a sizable $300 million profit and could afford the increase.
She advised any strike action would involve dealers, food and beverage staff and gaming staff.
"Members should be voting over the next few weeks, so the industrial action would occur in early October - it probably lines up with the spring racing carnival. Experienced, properly-trained staff are vital to ensuring gaming and alcohol are served responsibly at Crown. But Crown has sent a clear message it does not value the loyalty, dedication and experience of its staff. It only cares about one thing: making more money, whatever the cost to the community or its own staff. It has told staff it cannot afford a fair wage increase and needs to make changes that could cost experienced dealers almost $5000 a year, despite its $300 million profit."
Crown chief executive David 'Cashed Up' (Media Man tag) Courtney said talk of strike action was not unusual towards the end of long negotiations (the previous enterprise agreement ceased on 30th June).
He tipped Crown's 11% offer was equal to that accepted by staff at Burswood Casino in Perth, Western Australia, and more than the 9% accepted by staff at Sydney's Star City Casino.
He said Crown was hopeful of avoiding strike action.
If there was strike action the casino would continue to operate, Courtney said.
Tabcorp is tight lipped on the speculation and tip offs that another strike may hit their Star City Casino in 'Sin City' Sydney. Reef Casino and Lasseters in Australia's top end region would not disclose or confirm if they were about to suffer "strike action" (one kind or another), and no, we are not talking about aggressive boat people or the Australian or foreign Navy vessels, aircraft carriers or the like.
Insider rumors tip that they may be another kind of "strike", but that may be just heat coming from the readership of the likes of the very loud Media Man, Casino News Media and Gambling911.
A Media Man spokesperson said "Regarding the talk of another kind of strike in the Australian casino sector, don't look too deep into it. Our journalist and correspondent friends are known for talking things up, mind you, stranger things have happened in the past like the casino shaft man, Ferrari thief man, and even a couple of bomb threats a few years back, so I guess anything is possible. We think the hard working staff might just get the pay increase, and hopefully it won't negatively effect the share price. Mr Packer's operation is still pretty much head and shoulders about the competition so it should still be fair winds, and let us not forget the Packer and Warnie X factor, so Crown will keep powering for the foreseeable future in any event."
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Readers... er, punters, what's your view on the casino wars and potential strike action? Is other "strike action" on the cards? Keep checking daily for updates. If you have a bet, please bet with your head, not over it, and for God's sake, have fun.
Crown Limited Share Price: $8.320
*Greg Tingle is a special contributor for Gambling911
*Media Man http://www.mediamanint.com is primarily a media, publicity and internet portal development company. They cover a dozen industry sectors including gaming and offer political commentary and analysis.
*The writer owns shares in Crown Limited
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Crown Casino Workers To Strike; Rumours - Star City Casino And Others May Follow Trend...
Australian land based casinos can still operate in times of strike action, which is a very good thing for the powers that be at Crown Casino (and potentially a number of others).
Crown Limited is one of the biggest employers of Melbourne - ites - (for the moment). Let us also not forget that Crown are also a major supporter of our friend (and maybe yours) Andrew "Twiggy" Forrest.
Multiple thousands of workers at Crown Casino will likely be on strike during this year's Spring Racing Carnival as part of a significant industrial campaign for better pay, and perhaps conditions.
Crown staff will vote on the possible strike action in the coming weeks after Fair Work Australia approved the ballot. Insiders are hoping they don't get the equivalent of a hung Parliament, which was the state of Australia's senate for roughly 2 weeks, before Julia Gillard was reappointed the Prime Ministership.
Staffers are seeking out a 13.5% pay rise over three years and have flat out rejected Crown's 11% offer.
The LHMU (Liquor Hospitality and Miscellaneous Union) state secretary Jess 'Witty' (Media Man tag) Walsh said Crown Limited had posted a sizable $300 million profit and could afford the increase.
She advised any strike action would involve dealers, food and beverage staff and gaming staff.
"Members should be voting over the next few weeks, so the industrial action would occur in early October - it probably lines up with the spring racing carnival. Experienced, properly-trained staff are vital to ensuring gaming and alcohol are served responsibly at Crown. But Crown has sent a clear message it does not value the loyalty, dedication and experience of its staff. It only cares about one thing: making more money, whatever the cost to the community or its own staff. It has told staff it cannot afford a fair wage increase and needs to make changes that could cost experienced dealers almost $5000 a year, despite its $300 million profit."
Crown chief executive David 'Cashed Up' (Media Man tag) Courtney said talk of strike action was not unusual towards the end of long negotiations (the previous enterprise agreement ceased on 30th June).
He tipped Crown's 11% offer was equal to that accepted by staff at Burswood Casino in Perth, Western Australia, and more than the 9% accepted by staff at Sydney's Star City Casino.
He said Crown was hopeful of avoiding strike action.
If there was strike action the casino would continue to operate, Courtney said.
Tabcorp is tight lipped on the speculation and tip offs that another strike may hit their Star City Casino in 'Sin City' Sydney. Reef Casino and Lasseters in Australia's top end region would not disclose or confirm if they were about to suffer "strike action" (one kind or another), and no, we are not talking about aggressive boat people or the Australian or foreign Navy vessels, aircraft carriers or the like.
Insider rumors tip that they may be another kind of "strike", but that may be just heat coming from the readership of the likes of the very loud Media Man, Casino News Media and Gambling911.
A Media Man spokesperson said "Regarding the talk of another kind of strike in the Australian casino sector, don't look too deep into it. Our journalist and correspondent friends are known for talking things up, mind you, stranger things have happened in the past like the casino shaft man, Ferrari thief man, and even a couple of bomb threats a few years back, so I guess anything is possible. We think the hard working staff might just get the pay increase, and hopefully it won't negatively effect the share price. Mr Packer's operation is still pretty much head and shoulders about the competition so it should still be fair winds, and let us not forget the Packer and Warnie X factor, so Crown will keep powering for the foreseeable future in any event."
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Wrap Up...
Readers... er, punters, what's your view on the casino wars and potential strike action? Is other "strike action" on the cards? Keep checking daily for updates. If you have a bet, please bet with your head, not over it, and for God's sake, have fun.
Crown Limited Share Price: $8.320
*Greg Tingle is a special contributor for Gambling911
*Media Man http://www.mediamanint.com is primarily a media, publicity and internet portal development company. They cover a dozen industry sectors including gaming and offer political commentary and analysis.
*The writer owns shares in Crown Limited
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Tuesday, September 07, 2010
Australian Politics Porn And Gambling Prober Quits, by Greg Tingle - 7th September 2010
Australia remains one of the world's hotbeds of political scandal, much to do with porn and other adult activities such as gambling. Yep, those Aussies love their vice, as evidences by digital footprints and porn probes a plenty. Yesterday a woman charged with heading up a porn and gambling probe quit, and more heads are expected to roll as the Labor party continues to cull dead wood, at cuts and overall wastes of space, all of which the Australian public ultimately pays for. Media Man and Gambling911 continue to dig up info on Aussie polies who just love their vice, be it porn, gambling or other "questionable material". Yep, we play 'Thought Police' and 'Big Brother' on the political brains who are supposed to be serving the Aussie public, but we give them a very good serving just to even the score...
Female Porn And Gambling Prober Quits Over Fallout; Media Pressures...
Down under in Australian political scandal is running wild, and some even compare it to 'Casino Jack', Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitzer magnitudes.
Readers will recall that last week Australian politics lost Paul 'Porn Laurette' (MM tag) McLeay. We also covered that former MP Ian McDonald has been seeing leaving gay sex clubs (paid for the Australian public), while he was supposed to be working - No Working Out or Making Out!!! and Rev Fred 'Nifty' Nile (Media Man tag) has also been skating on thin ice.
The Australian media was also not immune by porn scandal, with former ABC TV host
Andy 'Mummy Media' (MM tag) Muirhead of get this... The Collectors, being found to be a collector and huge fan of kiddy porn!!! Even Rupert Murdoch's News Corporations' Aussie website portal, news.com.au has been listed by some Australian government 'Big Brother' lists as being "porn". James Packer's Betfair sports and political betting website also made the Aussie internet filter "blacklist". Australia certainly has porn and other illegal, and would be illegal, material on its brain.
Hey, here's a joke just to keep things a bit light... Why is snooker like sex? Because if you don't sink the pink, you sink the brown lol.
Swinging back to business at hand and back on message, moving forward (thanks Julia Gillard), the Aussie parliamentary staffer who commissioned an unauthorised audit of internet use which forced the sudden and spectacular resignation of a minister just last week has now... wait for it...resigned!!!
Lisa 'Vagina Diaries' (Media Man tag) Vineburg, a HR exec in the New South Wales Department of Parliamentary Services, left her position after it came to light she had ordered the I.T department to trawl through the computers of all ministers and MPs, their staffers and all non-political employees in Macquarie Street. It's been reported in Australian press many times over the years that the human resources sector has some of the most seriously screwed up types of all, and this appears to be yet another example of that widespread belief.
Raw as naked data, which strongly suggested about 5 people had recorded an "usually high level of activity" or "hits" from adult or gaming websites, was subsequently leaked to the media, and the media (including us) subsequently had a field day, or actually, field week with it. Yeah, field week, with plenty of sneaks, and inside peeps, and yet more leaks, some into Tweets.
When quizzed by a journo about the report, the Minister for Ports and Waterways, Paul McLeay, resigned, and the Christian Democrats MP, the Reverend Fred 'Nifty' (MM tag) Nile, was forced to admit a staff member, David 'Dead Cunning' (MM tag) Copeland, looked up such websites for "research purposes" (hello Japanese whaling scientists out there in internet land).
Vineburg "took it upon herself to audit everyone in the building", a senior parliamentary leak said. Well, looks like she caught out a few who looked at pink bits, including herself.
The former HR probe Vineburg could not be contacted last night. Her relationship status is not known at this time, nor her preferred genre of movies, documentaries, magazine titles or gaming brands.
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Readers... er, punters, what's your view on online poker, online casinos, broadband, censorship, freedom of the press and politicians screwing up and doing the wrong thing?...Keep checking daily for updates. Don't forget to use Proxy if need be!
The Late News...
Australian Labor party tipped to expect more resignations from MP's doing the wrong thing. If you have a bet, please bet with your head, not over it, and for God's sake, have fun.
*Greg Tingle is a special contributor for Gambling911
*Media Man http://www.mediamanint.com is primarily a media, publicity and internet portal development company. They cover a dozen industry sectors including gaming and offer political commentary and analysis.
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Female Porn And Gambling Prober Quits Over Fallout; Media Pressures...
Down under in Australian political scandal is running wild, and some even compare it to 'Casino Jack', Bill Clinton and Eliot Spitzer magnitudes.
Readers will recall that last week Australian politics lost Paul 'Porn Laurette' (MM tag) McLeay. We also covered that former MP Ian McDonald has been seeing leaving gay sex clubs (paid for the Australian public), while he was supposed to be working - No Working Out or Making Out!!! and Rev Fred 'Nifty' Nile (Media Man tag) has also been skating on thin ice.
The Australian media was also not immune by porn scandal, with former ABC TV host
Andy 'Mummy Media' (MM tag) Muirhead of get this... The Collectors, being found to be a collector and huge fan of kiddy porn!!! Even Rupert Murdoch's News Corporations' Aussie website portal, news.com.au has been listed by some Australian government 'Big Brother' lists as being "porn". James Packer's Betfair sports and political betting website also made the Aussie internet filter "blacklist". Australia certainly has porn and other illegal, and would be illegal, material on its brain.
Hey, here's a joke just to keep things a bit light... Why is snooker like sex? Because if you don't sink the pink, you sink the brown lol.
Swinging back to business at hand and back on message, moving forward (thanks Julia Gillard), the Aussie parliamentary staffer who commissioned an unauthorised audit of internet use which forced the sudden and spectacular resignation of a minister just last week has now... wait for it...resigned!!!
Lisa 'Vagina Diaries' (Media Man tag) Vineburg, a HR exec in the New South Wales Department of Parliamentary Services, left her position after it came to light she had ordered the I.T department to trawl through the computers of all ministers and MPs, their staffers and all non-political employees in Macquarie Street. It's been reported in Australian press many times over the years that the human resources sector has some of the most seriously screwed up types of all, and this appears to be yet another example of that widespread belief.
Raw as naked data, which strongly suggested about 5 people had recorded an "usually high level of activity" or "hits" from adult or gaming websites, was subsequently leaked to the media, and the media (including us) subsequently had a field day, or actually, field week with it. Yeah, field week, with plenty of sneaks, and inside peeps, and yet more leaks, some into Tweets.
When quizzed by a journo about the report, the Minister for Ports and Waterways, Paul McLeay, resigned, and the Christian Democrats MP, the Reverend Fred 'Nifty' (MM tag) Nile, was forced to admit a staff member, David 'Dead Cunning' (MM tag) Copeland, looked up such websites for "research purposes" (hello Japanese whaling scientists out there in internet land).
Vineburg "took it upon herself to audit everyone in the building", a senior parliamentary leak said. Well, looks like she caught out a few who looked at pink bits, including herself.
The former HR probe Vineburg could not be contacted last night. Her relationship status is not known at this time, nor her preferred genre of movies, documentaries, magazine titles or gaming brands.
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Wrap Up...
Readers... er, punters, what's your view on online poker, online casinos, broadband, censorship, freedom of the press and politicians screwing up and doing the wrong thing?...Keep checking daily for updates. Don't forget to use Proxy if need be!
The Late News...
Australian Labor party tipped to expect more resignations from MP's doing the wrong thing. If you have a bet, please bet with your head, not over it, and for God's sake, have fun.
*Greg Tingle is a special contributor for Gambling911
*Media Man http://www.mediamanint.com is primarily a media, publicity and internet portal development company. They cover a dozen industry sectors including gaming and offer political commentary and analysis.
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